Mads Mikkelsen delivers a magnificent performance that brings life to a grim historical epic set in a familiarly harsh world. The film explores the flaws and complexities of its real-life protagonist, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the first minute of “The Promised Land,” Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s period epic set in 18th-century Denmark, we know ...

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Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land” is aptly titled. Adapted from the 2020 novel “The Captain and Ann Barbara,” by Ida Jessen, the land itself — the untamed heath of Jutland, the peninsula that makes ...

Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land” is aptly titled. Adapted from the novel “The Captain and Ann Barbara” by Ida Jessen, the land itself — the untamed heath of Jutland, the peninsula that makes up the ...

Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for its historical drama film, The Promised Land. Starring award-winning actor Mads Mikkelsen as the determined yet poverty-stricken war hero Captain Ludvig ...

Mads Mikkelsen brings singular, unsmiling focus to his portrayal of a Danish pioneer in “The Promised Land,” a movie in which — its title notwithstanding — nothing is guaranteed. In 1755 Copenhagen, ...

A commoner-turned-captain is locked in a grisly land battle with a dastardly nobleman in Nikolaj Arcel's entertaining, broad-brush epic, lent weight by its ever-reliable star. Also hard and rugged and ...

Another marvelous 2023 leftover, Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land,” Denmark’s submission for the foreign-language Oscar, has everything you want in an epic film: struggle, romance, period detail, ...